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Comment Re:Misstep? (Score 1) 425

by SlackBastardNetworks on Thursday May 08, 2008 @02:39PM (#23341128) Attached to: id Software Announces Doom 4

Try "Lack of Cooperative Multiplayer". Sure, they had it on consoles. But they asserted to the press that PC gamers only played FPS games to kill their friends, not to engage the monsters (and any story-line, however thin) with the assistance of their friends.

They lost a lot of fans that day. I, for one, am a PC gamer who enjoys cooperative play with friends far more than deathmatches against them. Partly by choice, partly because they still remember the way I booby-trapped a hallway in Half Life and refuse to play deathmatch with me anymore... ;P

RIAA-fighting Maine Law Professor Speaks Out 129

Posted by Zonk on Friday December 28, 2007 @09:29PM from the fightin'-lawfish dept.

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "In an interview with Jon Newton of p2pnet, Prof. Deirdre Smith of the University of Maine says that 'our students are enthusiastic about being directly connected to a case with a national scope and significance'. The UM Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic is the first law school legal clinic in the U.S. to have taken on the RIAA, to have the opportunity for hands-on experience fighting the RIAA's effort to rewrite copyright law. Smith went on to say that the case is probably one of the first intellectual property cases the clinic has ever taken on, and that if it proceeds further, she expects to also 'draw on the considerable expertise in IP among members of our faculty and the Maine Center for Law and Innovation, another program of the Law School'. "

Submission + - Jack Thompson:Games Industry Colluding With DOD (wired.com) 1

Submitted by

mytrip

on Friday December 28, 2007 @06:27PM

mytrip writes: "In a press release sent out yesterday, controversial attorney Jack Thompson claims he has found a correlation between the gaming industry and the US Department of Defense, who, he adds, are using videogames to teach "an entire generation of kids that war is glamorous, cool, desirable, and consequence-free."

The aim of the release is to notify the media of Thompson's new goal: proving the existence of collusion between the gaming industry and the Department of Defense in an effort to train more efficient killers."

Submission + - Most americans have false sense of online security (net-security.org) 1

Submitted by BaCa on Thursday December 06, 2007 @08:23AM

BaCa writes: More than half of computer users who think they are protected against online threats like spyware, viruses and hackers actually have inadequate or no online protection, according to an independent research study conducted for Verizon. While 92 percent of participants thought they were safe, the scans revealed that 59 percent were actually vulnerable to a variety of online dangers. Ninety-four percent of those surveyed said they would find it helpful to be able to diagnose or check their online security status on a regular basis to make sure their PCs were safe.

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